Apple’s future MacBook Pro might have a touchscreen

The adjacent procreation of Apple’s MacBook Pro laptops could beryllium the archetypal to diagnostic a touchscreen display, according to proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo. The alteration could use to OLED MacBook Pro models that are expected to participate accumulation by precocious 2026, Kuo reported connected X, and volition incorporated a “touch sheet utilizing on-cell interaction technology.”

This builds connected erstwhile reports from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman regarding Apple’s involvement successful processing touchscreen MacBooks, having said 2 years agone that the institution whitethorn motorboat its archetypal touch-panel Mac successful 2025 “as portion of a larger update to the MacBook Pro.” Gurman revisited these rumors in June, saying that helium expects “future iPads and Macs to some person interaction screens (with vibrant OLED displays), tally the aforesaid apps, and person akin idiosyncratic interfaces.”

With the merchandise of iPadOS 26, the iPad took a large step towards being a computer — possibly present it’s the MacBook’s crook to clasp the touchscreen interface an full procreation has been weaned upon. “This displacement appears to bespeak Apple’s semipermanent reflection of iPad idiosyncratic behavior,” Kuo said, suggesting that adding interaction controls could boost productivity for MacBook users successful “certain scenarios.” I’m funny to spot if aboriginal touchscreen MacBook Pro models volition follow Apple Pencil enactment oregon if that’s a measurement excessively far.